WMO Workshop on

Time

Events

09:00 - 09:15

Welcome Addresses

• Rupa Kumar Kolli, WMO


• Nicholas Herold, Workshop lead

09:15 - 09:30

Tour de table: Self-introductions of participants

09:30 - 09:50

Introduction to the CCl ET-SCI
Includes where ET-SCI sits within the WMO structure, the history of the Expert Team and previous meetings; the terms of reference and expected deliverables of the Expert Team; the importance of this workshop as a milestone within the Global Framework on Climate Services.

• Anahit Hovsepyan, WMO

09:50 - 10:10

Previous workshops and expected outcomes from this workshop
Introduction to previous ET-SCI workshops held in Fiji and Barbados and outcomes. What outcomes we can expect from this workshop.

• Nicholas Herold, Workshop Lead

10:10 - 10:40

Regional Variability and Change and Indices in India
An overview of regional climate variability and change in the region and the application of climate indices regionally.

• JayashreeRevadekar

10:40 - 11:00

Coffee Break

SESSION II: INTRODUCTION TO ClimPACT2
             Chair : Rupa Kumar Kolli

11:00 - 11:30

Introduction to ClimPACT2
An overview of ClimPACT2, including its features, required inputs, and outputs. This software uses a programming language known as “R”, available free of charge from http://www.r-project.org.

• Nicholas Herold

11:30 - 12:00

Install and check software and data formats
People to download R and ClimPACT2 (USB keys also passed around). Everything up to and including sourcing the climpact2.gui.r file should be achieved.More time available after lunch if necessary.

12:00 - 13:00

Lunch

SESSION III: Data Quality Control
             Chair : Acacia Pepler

13:00 - 14:00

Quality control of climate data and data issues
This session involves using ClimPACT2 to check climate data for errors including duplicated dates, unphysical values, outliers, repeated values and more. While it is important to remove false values from your data it is also important not to remove valid values. Some extreme values may be genuine and hence absolutely necessary to keep. The QC features of ClimPACT2 will be shown and how to make changes to your data will be demonstrated.

• Nicholas Herold

14:00 - 15:00

QC checks of station data

15:00 - 15:15

Coffee Break

15:15 - 17:00

QC checks of station data

17:00

Adjourn

TUESDAY, 4 OCTOBER 2016

SESSION IV: Hands-on data quality and homogeneity assessment
             Chair : Jayashree Revadekar

09:00 - 09:45

Introduction to homogeneity
Introduces participants to the concept of homogenisation, why it’s necessary, how it’s done and an introduction to and demonstration of the software that will be used to perform homogeneity checking at the workshop, RHTest. To download RHTest, use this link - http://etccdi.pacificclimate.org/software.shtml

• Acacia Pepler

09:45 - 10:30

Homogeneity checks

10:30 - 10:45

Coffee Break

10:45 - 12:00

Homogeneity checks (continued)

12:00 - 13:00

Lunch

13:00 - 15:00

Homogeneity Checks(continued)

15:00 - 15:15

Coffee Break

15:15 - 17:00

Homogeneity checks (continued)

WEDNESDAY, 5 OCTOBER 2016

SESSION V: The use of climate information in sector-specific analysis
             Chair : Rupa Kumar Kolli

09:00 - 09:15

Welcome Addresses

• Director IITM
• Rupa Kumar Kolli, WMO
• Toshiyuki Nakaegawa, ET-SCI Co-Chair

09:15 - 09:25

Climate Services Information System (CSIS)

• Rupa Kumar Kolli

09:25 - 09:35

Introduction to the value of Climate Indices for Sector applications
Introduces participants to the concept of a climate index and why they’re useful, the history of the ETCCDI and the need for more sector-relevant indices and the creation of the ET-SCI.

• Nicholas Herold

09:35 - 09:50

Climate information for Agriculture and Food Security

• Xiaomao Lin

09:50 - 10:05

Climate information for Water Resources

• Toshiyuki Nakaegawa

10:05 - 10:20

Climate information for Health

• Shubhayu Saha

10:20 - 10:50

Coffee Break and group photo

SESSION VI: Introduction to the Expert Team on Sector-specific Climate Indices
             (ET-SCI) and their indices
             Chair : Xiaomao Lin

10:50 - 11:10

Introduction to the CCl ET-SCI and the ET-SCI indices
Includes where ET-SCI sits within the WMO structure, the history of the Expert Team and previous meetings; the terms of reference and expected deliverables of the Expert Team; the importance of this workshop as a milestone within the Global Framework on Climate Services and a broad overview of types of indices that are calculated with sector-relevance.

• Anahit Hovsepyan

11:10 - 11:25

Introduction to drought indices
Brief introduction to drought concepts and widely used drought indices. Includes a more detailed description of the Standardized precipitation Index (SPI) and Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) included in ClimPACT2.

• Xiaomao Lin

11:25 - 11:40

Introduction to heatwave indices
Includes discussion of global framework for defining heatwaves and warm spells – brief overview of the three different definitions used and the various characteristics measured for each definition. Participants will be able to decide which definitions and characteristics are best suited for their sector

• Shubhayu Saha

11:40 - 12:00

Distribute software and data to new participants. Ensure R and Panoply installed on everyone’s laptop.

12:00 - 13:00

Lunch

SESSION VII: Introduction to ClimPACT2 and interactive session
              Chair : Acacia Pepler

13:00 – 13:30

Introduction to ClimPACT2 including demonstration
Introduction, history and demonstration of the main software package being used at the workshop

• Nicholas Herold

13:30 – 15:00

Ensure software is installed, and interactive ClimPACT2 session.
Participants commence calculating indices and comparing to their country’s sector data. Following along with N. Herold. Using quality controlled data from Met Services.

15:00 – 15:30

Coffee Break

15:30 – 17:00

Participants continue to calculate indices for their country’s station(s).

18:00 – 19:30

Social event: Dinner hosted by Director of IITM.

THURSDAY, 6 OCTOBER 2016

SESSION VIII: Interactive session
              Chair : Nicholas Herold

09:00 – 09:05

Activity thus far and day’s objectives

09:05 – 10:30

Calculate indices and analyse results(*lightning lectures)

10:30 – 10:45

Coffee Break

10:45 – 12:30

Calculate indices and analyse results(*lightning lectures)

12:30 - 13:30

Lunch

13:30 – 15:15

Calculate indices and analyse results(*lightning lectures)

15:15 – 15:30

Coffee Break

SESSION IX: Regional modelling and climate indices
              Chair : Toshiyuki Nakaegawa

15:30 – 16:00

Regional modelling and climate indices

• David Hein

16:00 - 17:00

Continue calculating indices and analysing results, including regional model data and commence preparation of country presentations.

• David Hein Griggs

FRIDAY, 7 OCTOBER 2016

SESSION X: Country and region presentations
              Chair : Rupa Kumar Kolli

09:00 - 10:15

Completion of country presentations

10:15 - 10:30

Coffee Break

10:30 - 12:30

Country presentations
Each country group to give a 10 minute presentation describing any interesting relationships they have found between their climate indices and sector data.

12:30 - 13:30

Lunch

SESSION XI: Next steps and conclusion
              Chair : Anahit Hovsepyan

13:00 - 13:30

Presentation on regional series
Some of the computed indices will be aggregated into preliminary regional series to provide the participants with a general perspective of their joint evolution in the analysed area.

• Nicholas Herold

13:30 - 15:00

Discussion
Includes the future of the indices for sector applications, where to next, publications (sector applications and peer reviewed)

15:00 - 15:30

Summary of the Discussion and the main conclusions and decisions

• Rupa Kumar Kolli

15:30

Workshop Closure